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Poll Rely by 4Ply Magazine
Plainly the unattainable has occurred: we’ve tallied a QS Readers Ballot, and there’s no Tom Knox in sight 😲😲😲
All jokes apart, past gentle output from Mr. Knox in 2022, that is maybe the yr that the a number of half strategy wielded by S.O.T.Y. hopefuls started to adapt itself to folks’s recollections of the previous twelve months. Whereas in previous years, when a number of releases tended to separate the vote in clear favor of 1 over one other, 50% of this yr’s High 20 components are from the identical 5 folks.
Additionally value noting that the purpose unfold between slot #14 and slot #10 for single components was 4 factors. Possibly we introduce a runoff characteristic subsequent yr ¯_(ツ)_/¯
The #1 video was a landslide.
If you’re simply becoming a member of us, this rating was voted on by QS readers from December fifth to December ninth ✨
*Particular consideration was given to movies that premiered in late 2021 after voting for the 2021 Readers Poll had already closed.
The Greatest Full-Size Skate Movies of 2022
The Greatest Video Components of 2022
10. Gilbert Crockett — Quasi: “Denim Car“
For 2 years, the phrase “Denim Automobile” was scribbled on an concepts board at Quasi HQ, till made tangible with an upholstered ’91 Pontiac Sunbird. “The thought and title had been very literal from the start,” defined Gilbert Crockett, who takes the car on an unexplained journey although woodside highways, gasoline stations and vacant heaps earlier than crashing and awakening on a porch in Richmond, Virginia. After a pleasing change with the home’s resident, he kickflips over to the neighbor’s doorstep. Maneuvering from ominous, to puzzling, then arriving at cheerful, there’s a sense of David Lynch about the entire thing.
It’s becoming as Crockett and Lynch are considerably likeminded: famend creatures of behavior, each in search of perfect pants. For Lynch, routine frees up creative expression elsewhere. For Crockett, acquainted environment are conducive to discovering new approaches.
Richmond has backdropped nearly all of his video components and amongst the quaint red bricks, Crockett discovers new nooks by way of granite strewn throughout grass gaps and momentary sidewalk development. At his favorite spot, SunTrust, his understated tech takes the lead. There’s a modesty to his closing swap flip over a bench from flat, the load of it setting in as Jonathan Richman performs out over the credit.
“It feels real, I assume,” mentioned Crockett, once I requested him what resonates about skate boarders being captured of their pure setting. Real, it does. — Farran Golding
9. Chris Milic — Final Resort AB: Alv’s Angels
I believe it’s secure to say that we’re all right here for the stuff on the chain, proper? I attempted some shit like that once I first began skating.
As soon as. Earlier than I knew higher.
It’s good to see Crangler’s onboard yearnings develop because the years coast by. He’ll nonetheless attain out and tickle the wall in a means that seems like he’s holding again laughs, however his skating will get an increasing number of… thought-about? I’ll always remember a Younger Chrissy in his “One in a Million” exit interview or no matter, once they’re like, “The place do you assume all that foolish shit is gonna get you on this trade, younger man?!”
Spring ahead, fall again, and right here we’re in 2022. This man owns a literal enterprise. One which offers with Harmonized Tariff Codes, gross sales margins, and tolerances to be thought-about on board graphics that he himself makes. It’s doable that every one that point on the PC finds him mining inside himself for a number of the extra avant-garde stuff, utilizing the time for busywork to essentially sit with the concepts of spots, prying aside the physics of shit.
However then you definitely see some shit like manny slappy again tail manny — in a cowboy hat — and also you’re like “what?” There’s the stuff that folks consider, then there’s the stuff folks simply do out of spontaneity or boredom. Which class does this fall underneath? If it’s pre-planned, hat and all, that’s insane. However it’s too nuts, too tech to only be on a whim, proper? Nicely, I believe Chrissy is aware of the place the road is and the right way to toy with it.
The Sharpie-scrawl on the picnic desk, with its scribbly arrow pointed to the highest of an eighteen-stair handrail, is a part of it. It will get at one thing. Slightly how-to word to self: “grind right here Zach Baker
8. Nick Matthews — “Venture x Uprise“
Nick Matthews’ “Enterprise x Uprise” half paints him as a person of thriller. There aren’t any life-style pictures to present us a glimpse into his pursuits or pad the half’s runtime; his wardrobe is unassuming. Even the soundtrack, an eerie beat paying homage to traditional Sovereign Sect movies, appears to say extra about his style in skating than his style in music.
As Nick cuts by spots, we will image the gears delivering his head. Each trick is pursued by a lens of each energy and dexterity, from the opening bottom 5050 — gapping farther over stairs and gate than the stubby windowsill he truly grinds — to the fakie heelflip prolonged over an alleyway. The mini Chase part, spectacular sufficient when taken at face worth, reveals a deeper reverence for the plaza and its significance in Chicago’s scene. Ender ollie apart, the half’s crown jewel is the Keith Hufnagel tribute on the East River esplanade: a dangerous hole to bottom lipslide that might have backfired in each execution and reception. Nick rolled away to unanimous reward.
Possibly there’s no thriller. Possibly we’ve simply grown so accustomed to self-promotion that we’re caught off guard by a proficient skateboarder who retains to himself. Possibly we shouldn’t know that a lot about our favourite skaters. However no matter what we discovered (or didn’t study) about Nick Matthews watching this half, there’s no query why he’s nonetheless on our minds a full yr later. — Andrew Murrell
7. Ben Kadow — Supreme: Play Dead
Billie Joel was a highschool drop-out turned profitable soft-rock balladeer when he launched “It’s Nonetheless Rock and Roll To Me” as a single in the summertime of 1980. Its mildly venomous lyrics criticize style labels and style developments, and leaves one questioning if the music is a real expression of tepid bitterness or a calculated success transfer. Is Joel’s use of a classic rockabilly shuffle to precise his indignation sarcastic, genuine, or some place the place one is remodeling into the opposite? Is the joke on the listener or is the listener in on the joke? Both means, it was his first #1 hit.
I discover myself asking related questions when considering Ben Kadow’s half in Play Useless. With the frayed pants, the gold shades, the conspicuously quick sleeves and, maybe most of all, the Billie Joel… is it cool or defiantly uncool? Can or not it’s each? Does it matter?
Extra essential than bonafides and intentions, is whether or not or not it connects. And when Ben commits to grinding the highest of a sidewalk bench from the road after which misses, I’m totally on board.
Now I’m skating a parking storage curb, that Billie Joel music is in my head and I’m not mad about it. I ponder how I’d look with hacked sleeves. Subsequent section, new wave, dance craze, in any case. — Pete Glover
6. Tyshawn Jones — Supreme: Play Dead
Tyshawn Jones’ closing part in Play Useless is a video half that’s upfront about the place it’s going and the place it’s coming from — fireworks and a trash can, first actually, after which within the metaphorical sense, with a prolonged sequence of two-shot sequences over the trash bins that Tyshawn Jones has elevated into their very own sub-genre (craziest could be swap kickflip / swap heeflip.) For these inclined, it really works too as a spin on Bryan Herman’s Stay Gold picnic table verses, a dude Tyshawn has name-checked a couple of occasions over time: “If I had been to see Bryan Herman again within the day,” he told Jenkem in 2018, “I’d pay homage.”
Tyshawn Jones’ curtain-closer in “BLESSED” was the heaviest east coast video part since Jake Johnson in Thoughts Subject and there’s nonetheless a by line between two of probably the most consequential execs at present. There’s no filler; each clip memorable. Even working primarily with well-worn hometown spots, he’s stretching what appears doable: lifting a noseblunt up the Pyramid Ledges, viciously drifting bottom on the swap heelflip over the Dylan Rieder planter. By the tip, the sheer peak on the ollie over the can at Muni makes it straightforward to miss the stainless tweak, and the 10-foot-tall spikes blur by beneath a high-speed 360 flip.
Loads of superlatives get flung on Tyshawn Jones, however his street-purist standing isn’t as a lot talked about. He’s dodging site visitors, spreading bondo, little seen in personal parks or big-money contests, rewriting actuality with a motorbike lane and a trash can. The exercised passerby midway by the half bears witness: “No one’s doing that!” — Boil the Ocean
5. Tristan Funkhouser — “Deep Fried x Baker“
An excellent video half makes you’re feeling one thing: pleasure, awe, inspiration, or some other mixture of chemical substances your physique tosses into the burbling beaker of your mind whereas viewing it. The primary time I watched Heath Kirchart in Sight Unseen, I used to be dumbstruck. The gradual construct of The Moody Blues, the dramatic pacing (there are solely 24 particular person tips in the complete three-minute lengthy half), and expertly timed audio cues had pre-teen me feeling one thing. By the point Kirchart rode away from his bottom noseblunt at UCI to the orchestral swell of strings and horns, my eyes had welled up.
Tristan Funkhouser’s “Deep Fried x Baker” video half additionally makes me really feel one thing: worry. It’s the primal thrill of watching a comet hurtle towards the earth. This flame-licked ball of power strikes impossibly quick; you’re by no means certain the place it’ll land, whether or not it’ll survive, or who it’ll take with it. How do you not stare at your display screen in surprise at how paradoxically in-control he manages to be with that bend of the knee, executing a singular bag of tips on spots that might require superior improvisational abilities? Ollie a road to frontside wallride a parked UPS van? Certain!
Watching T-Funk in “Deep Fried x Baker” additionally made my eyes nicely from merely attempting to maintain up. — Cole Nowicki
4. Bobby DeKeyzer — “•BOBBY“
First it’s the canine, then it’s the bike owner, then it’s the make. Who remembered that Bobby DeKeyzer bottom heelflipped that street after leaping one other? How did he try this? How may one neglect? Rewind it and his ft are prepared, proper there.
And now I’m watching Bobby once more, however I’m simply these ft. Possibly they transfer, however possibly not. I stare tougher on the ft as he manuals to bottom kickflip over a niche, aided by slo-mo to grasp in the event that they budge. Do they? DeKeyzer’s skating is that nice mixture of velocity and economic system of motion, with the added bonus of him doing stuff that’s actually onerous. He does it on a regular basis!
Now, I’m obsessed together with his board; it seems substantial. In my skateshop days, youngsters would typically name wheels “tires.” They may say he skates tires. Why that setup? DeKeyzer skates quick, flicks his board quick, continuously strikes quick earlier than slamming on the proverbial brakes to modify handbook, fakie 5-0 or simply journey away clear. Possibly the board’s heft holds all of it collectively? — Mike Munzenrider
3. Tyshawn Jones — Hardies: “The General“
When the New York Instances Journal put T.J. on their cover in 2018, they requested the query, “Is skateboarding large enough for somebody like Tyshawn Jones?” The years since have appeared to reply within the damaging. Greater than a mere “athlete,” he’s advanced right into a restauranteur, designer of skate sneakers and sun shades, style mannequin, head of Hardies {Hardware}, and, as of this yr, bossman of Brick Beneath and King Skateboards. In only a decade, the “buddy” that got here up has remodeled himself right into a mogul. The availability strains to such stardom, nonetheless, are fueled by a single supply – the ability of Tyshawn’s skateboarding.
“The Normal” opened the onslaught in October and stays Tyshawn’s most enjoyable providing to this point. In four-and-a-half minutes of finely calculated assault, Tyshawn wields his well-balanced arsenal of explosive flip tips and float throughout benchmark spots within the States’ most skated cities. He one-ups himself at his favourite hometown haunts, and takes his assault throughout the nation to newly unlocked spots, just like the mosaic slide at China Banks with the double-barreled blast of his inimitable tre and nollie heel. By the point he’s poised on a pointed again noseblunt throughout San Francisco’s behemoth Bay Block, as Jadakiss raps with a cool confidence that he’ll quickly “see a few billion,” you possibly can’t assist however assume that, if Tyshawn needs it, the identical fortune is achievable for him. Something is.
Everyone knows now what comes after the TO BE CONTINUED: the social media scrutiny and the silencing, the Play Useless half, the King clip, the buzzer-beater backside flip, the hard-won second S.O.T.Y.™ trophy. However skateboarding is greater than that for him, it’s everything, and the sky’s the restrict on the place it might probably take him – let’s see how excessive he’ll fly. — Christian N. Kerr
2. Tristan Funkhouser — Baker: Tyson & T-Funk 420
Ever had the munchies however felt actually nauseous on the identical time? This yr on 4/20, as I used to be languishing head deep in a bathroom bowl, Tristan Funkhouser – presumably much less pregnant than me however together with his head additionally probably possibly deep down a bathroom bowl – launched a shocking Baker half. No queasiness may hold me away from watching the long-awaited footage of that China Banks ollie. It’s magic, actually, however in its purest kind: velocity, levitation, and fearlessness past comprehension.
Whereas all of us knew the ender could be unimaginable, the remainder of the half is equally mind-boggling, as T-Funk tears by S.F. at eye-watering velocity. So quick that his plentiful pushes are a spotlight, and I ponder if, like Gino, T-Funk shall be recognized for his eponymous push, certainly one of willpower and energy. The rail chomping is as you’d count on, but it surely’s the gaps that stand out – to wallrides, to noseblunt the complete size of a curb, to screechy entrance lip, and to an unimaginable nostril manny on the block at Union Sq..
T-Funk is decidedly inventive in his strategy and trick choice, and this half actually is a wild journey. It’s a scorching summer time day and sticky black tarmac. Lights going out and a kick within the balls. I inform ya, that’s leisure. — Claire Alleaume
1. Louie Lopez — Converse Cons: As You Wish
We’ve been watching Louie ceaselessly, and he’s grown into a significant case of twofold hassle: humble to the purpose of cool as shit with a mind-numbing ease of kind.
His Cons providing is just not solely a promise fulfilled, however an artist in his prime cemented. Along with his oh-so-soft contact, this half is brimming with an quantity and number of completely executed tips to sate skaters of all galaxies. Once I say excellent, I imply that every trick Louie does leaves no room for doubt that he ought to have carried out something in a different way. Hole-outs are gapped-out and bars are bumped whereas a stunning, infinite entry to all of road skateboarding’s tips, previous and current, are displayed. Wallie out of a bottom grind, wallie right into a bottom grind. A boggling fingerflip. A mess of hairball handrail exits, not together with the ender. A giant flip out of a fakie 5-0 on a picnic desk the size of a complete different desk!
This all quantities to skating that’s otherworldly however relatable. When the final piano is available in, he isn’t edited to the beat of the music — he’s enjoying together with it. It’s all encompassing and round, and the half, although easy, displays that in its construction. Louie receives karma for joking “gotcha” to an entanglement with the filmer in the direction of the start when he falls and chips a step together with his physique.
I used to be gonna try to put in writing this with out mentioning The Award™, and I assume I’ll attempt to nonetheless try this. It’s value stating although, that strategic sponsor content material launch methods apart, it looks like Louie is skating for himself. Therein is the relatable side. One hopes that is the case, and a stream of gorgeous skating like this may be anticipated for years to come back as a result of it’s inherently going to occur. As a result of it’s Louie and it fills us with pleasure. — Adam Abada
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